Gas-heater.



G. E. SHARPE.

GAS HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.13, 1912.

Patented Sept. 9, 1913. D 2 SHEETSSHEBT 1.

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G. E. SHARPE.

GAS HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED, MAR. 13, 1912. H 1 072 780, Patented Sept. 9, 1913, a 2 SHEETS-533E121 uuLuMmA PLANOGRAPH COUWASNINQTON, D. cv

UNITED ENT OFFIC GEoEGE E. SHARPE, or STEUBENVILLE, onro.

. GAS-HEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it mag concern:

- Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SHARPE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at will serve to draw in the cold air from adjacent the floor in the room in. which the heater is positionedand after heating this air deliver it at the top of the heater.

A further aim of the invention is to provide a heatercso constructed that while a maximum'heating area is afiorded, the resistance offered to the passage. of the heated products of combustion from the heater will not act to materially retard the draft.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to. the following description and which Figure 1 is a view in front elevationof accompanying drawing, in

. the heater embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3

is a horizontal sectional 'view on the line 3-3 of Fig.2. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 illustrating the manner of using a burner of a construction dilferentfrom that shown in Fig. 2.

' Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indi cated in all the views of the accompanying drawing by the same reference characters.

In the drawings, the hollow body of the heater is illustrated as including a back-wall 1, side walls 2, and atop 3. The side walls 2 are provided at theirforward edges with lateral flanges-4 asfis also the top 3 and to these flanges is secured the front of the heater,which front is indicated in general by the numeral 5. The upper portion of the front is in the n'ature of a hood 6, the forward wall of which is inclined downwardly Patented Sept. 9, 1913. i i Application fiIed'March 13, 1912. Serial No. 683,572.

and outwardly with respect to the remainder of the'front so that the lower edge of said wall is spaced from the front to provide an air passage 7. The forwar'dwall of this hood 6 may be either imperforate as shown in the drawings or may be provided with suitably arranged openings, if desired. A front plate 8 formed with openings 9 also constitutes a part of the front 5 of the heater and is positioned in substantially a vertical plane below the hood 6, thelower .1.

edge of the forward wall of the hood being spaced forwardly from the upper edge of the said plate 8, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Belowthe plate 8 the front of the heater is open as indicatedat 1O solas to expose the g asbestos covered deflector or back-plate which will be presently described. ;The lower portion of the front consists of a plate 11 which may be provided withsuitably arranged openings 12and the upper edge of this plate 11 is preferably formed with an inwardly and upwardly inclined flange 12. p I c v The principles of the invention may be is arranged directly within or upon the d,eflector or back-plate, which construction is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or they may be embodied in a heater in which the burner is in the form of a perforated tube, as shown in In Fig.2 the numeral 13 indicates the deflector or back-plate, and 14 a gas chamber which is secured to the rear side thereof. A

embodied in a heater in'which'the burner gas supply pipe 15 is secured uponrthe 7 forward face of the plate13 and is in communication, by way of an opening 16 formed in the said plate 13 with the interior of the gas chamber 14. The plate 13-is formed with openings 17 through which the gas supplied to the gas chamber 14 may issue in jets and the forward face of the plate 13 is covered with a sheet 18 of asbestos. If

desired, a valve such as shown at 19 maybe provided for controlling the supply of gas through the supply-pipe 15. A collector for the products of combustion is arranged at ward wall 22. Thetop 20 of the collector being arranged in vertical parallel planes In testimony whereof I afiix my signature gvith the llfaflle plate, thfie latter extendfilng in presence of two itnesses.

etWeen t e two series 0 flues, an exit ue for products of combustion leading from the SHARPE' 5' 5 chamber in rear of the hot-air flues, and a Witnesses burner located at the lower end of the de- CURTIS LAUGHLIN, flector plate. 7 MARY HAMBELTON.

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